In the last few years, Roblox has introduced much more modern-looking avatars with normal proportions, but its iconic blocky character figures are still alive and well.

Roblox has acquired Loom.ai for an undisclosed price to enable its users to create realistic 3D avatars. Roblox also delayed its IPO.

Roblox announced today that it’s buying a digital avatar startup called Loom.ai. Purchasing a company that has focused singularly on creating more realistic human avatars is an interesting play ...

Most Gen Z users reported that styling their Roblox avatar was more important to them than styling themselves in the physical world.

Roblox purchases digital avatar firm Loom.ai The real-time animation startup will bring emotions and facial expressions to Roblox avatars ...

Because the avatars resembled robots, it was decided that robot blocks was a better descriptor. When the two words were combined and stylized, the official name became Roblox.